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Along with @chicagosmayor, we are working to stand up a 3,000-bed alternate care facility at McCormick Place.
The @IL_Natl_Guard and @USACEHQ are on pace to have the first phase of the facility completed this week and the entire facility up and running by the end of April.
We received our first shipment of 500 beds on Saturday & the initial build is underway. We’re aiming to have these first 500 beds up this week, followed by the next 500 by next week, another 1250 by the week of April 20 & the final 750 Acute Care beds by the end of the month.
Based on best practices around the world about how to manage positive cases & contain this virus, McCormick will be dedicated to non-acute COVID-19 patients – people whose condition could benefit from the care of medical professionals but who are likely not to need a formal ICU.
I want to be clear – McCormick Place is dedicated to supporting our existing hospital system, not replacing it.
Today, in Chicago, there are hospitals that have a lot of COVID-19 patients – but there are also hospitals that are underutilized in our COVID response. The first place we are directing our patients is to existing hospital beds, maximizing our underutilized hospitals first.
If we never have to go beyond our existing facilities, we will all be very happy. But since we can’t guarantee that – and in fact, we don’t have the data yet to suggest otherwise – we are actively building out capacity.
In addition to McCormick Place in Chicago, the state alongside the Army Corps has formally launched work on two additional Alternate Care Facilities: the former Advocate Sherman Hospital Campus in Elgin and the Metro South Health Center in Blue Island.
The work that @IL_Natl_Guard and @USACEHQ have already done, what they’re capable of doing, is truly phenomenal.
On behalf of a grateful state, thank you.
I also want to thank Mayor Lightfoot and the entire city team for their partnership on this unprecedented project.
No mandatory freeze on such expences yet but no evictions will be enforced for time being and most mortgage companys nationwide are rolling payments to the end of said mortgage. If u get behind on rent god help u
Thank you Governor!
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